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<h2>May 5</h2>
<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138864/Listening-west-with-the-sunrise" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Listening west with the sunrise</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><i><a href="http://www.globalbreakfastradio.com/">Global Breakfast Radio</a> aggregates radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever it’s breakfast-time right now.</i> <small>(<a href="http://gizmodo.com/this-site-broadcasts-radio-from-wherever-the-sun-is-ris-1571820251">via</a>)</small> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/104955" target="_self">davidjmcgee</a> at 7:00 PM  - <a href="/138864/Listening-west-with-the-sunrise" target="_self" class="more">2 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138863/fiction-in-the-form-of-art-gallery-plaques" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">fiction in the form of art gallery plaques</a></div>
<div class="copy post">&quot;<a href="http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/83610069418/jennifer-egan-recommends-card-tricks-by-james">Card Tricks</a> by <a href="http://www.jameshannaham.com/">James Hannaham</a> recommended by Jennifer Egan&quot;<br>
&quot;By invoking the existence of artworks involving the gallery space, the people inside it, and the larger world (quite literally), Hannaham performs an ingenious reversal: the subject illuminated by the plaques ends up being us, the reader-viewers. And our experience of reading and viewing them—in what order we choose, in what state we’re in that day or night, in what company, in what mood, in what weather, is the narrative.&quot; <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/52631" target="_self">davidstandaford</a> at 5:53 PM  - <a href="/138863/fiction-in-the-form-of-art-gallery-plaques" target="_self" class="more">0 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138861/Myer-invest-the-money-with-your-friend-Warren" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">“Myer, invest the money with your friend Warren.”</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Rabbi Myer Kripke, of Omaha, dies at 100. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/us/rabbi-myer-kripke-100-early-buffett-friend-and-investor-dies.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0">The New York Times obituary</a> tells the story of the Kripkes and a couple they played bridge with and became friends with, Susan and Warren Buffett. In 1966, they approached Buffett to manage their savings, and they wound up making $25 million, all of which they gave away. 

The <em>Times</em> piece also devotes a half a sentence to Rabbi Kripke's son, &quot;Saul Kripke, a Princeton scholar who has been called the world’s greatest living philosopher&quot; (cynics should note that Saul Kripke shot to prominence before his parents were rich). <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/29519" target="_self">grobstein</a> at 5:02 PM  - <a href="/138861/Myer-invest-the-money-with-your-friend-Warren" target="_self" class="more">13 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138860/ALL-the-Porn" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">ALL the Porn</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/sony-crams-3-700-blu-rays-worth-of-storage-in-a-single-1571508568">Sony just announced that cassette technology might be the future! With a device that can hold 185 <em>terabytes</em> on one tape</a>. (that's three bluray discs worth of data per square inch.) <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/15055" target="_self">quin</a> at 4:05 PM  - <a href="/138860/ALL-the-Porn" target="_self" class="more">50 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138859/Yann-Tiersen-Secret-Concert" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Yann Tiersen Secret Concert</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://concert.arte.tv/fr/le-concert-secret-de-yann-tiersen">57-minutes of a live-stream concert</a> from French composer/musician Yann Tiersen playing from a secret location today.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138859/Yann-Tiersen-Secret-Concert" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/99940" target="_self">foxhat10</a> at 2:18 PM  - <a href="/138859/Yann-Tiersen-Secret-Concert" target="_self" class="more">14 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138858/Artists-Notebook-Ramsey-Nasser" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Artist's Notebook: Ramsey Nasser</a></div>
<div class="copy post">&quot;Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without exception. What makes my piece قلب different is that its primary purpose was to illustrate <a href="http://animalnewyork.com/2014/artists-notebook-ramsey-nasser/">how impossible coding in anything but English has become</a>.&quot; <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/18541" target="_self">invitapriore</a> at 1:44 PM  - <a href="/138858/Artists-Notebook-Ramsey-Nasser" target="_self" class="more">30 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138857/The-New-Yorker-Jigsaw-Puzzle" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The New Yorker Jigsaw Puzzle</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/covers/jigsaw">The New Yorker Jigsaw Puzzle.</a> Unjumble the covers. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/5445" target="_self">feelinglistless</a> at 1:06 PM  - <a href="/138857/The-New-Yorker-Jigsaw-Puzzle" target="_self" class="more">5 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138856/Just-stay-off-the-river" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Just stay off the river...</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://youtu.be/SleYHOcLjOg">Dogs....</a> Dogs playing &quot;Dueling Banjos&quot; <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/17601" target="_self">HuronBob</a> at 12:37 PM  - <a href="/138856/Just-stay-off-the-river" target="_self" class="more">17 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138854/Waiting-for-the-inevitable-slow-reading-movement" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Waiting for the inevitable slow reading movement</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/">How fast do you read</a>? <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/116057/Reading-speed-reading">previously</a>.)</small> The average adult allegedly reads 300 words a minute, but if that's too slow, <a href="http://open.bufferapp.com/how-to-read-more-and-remember-it-all/">there are ways to improve it</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/141010" target="_self">MartinWisse</a> at 11:16 AM  - <a href="/138854/Waiting-for-the-inevitable-slow-reading-movement" target="_self" class="more">70 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138853/What-Girls-Are-Good-For" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">"What Girls Are Good For"</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Today is the 150th birthday of Elizabeth Jane Seaman, n&#0233;e Cochran -- best known by her pen name <a href="http://www.nellieblyonline.com/">Nellie Bly</a>. She is perhaps most famous for her re-creation of Jules Verne's epic <em>Around the World in 80 Days</em>, but this real-life Phileas Fogg did it in a record-breaking 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes, and <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Seventy-Two_Days">wrote a book</a> about her adventure. She was a pioneering investigative journalist, brave enough to get herself committed to an insane asylum to expose its practices, which resulted in the book <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html">Ten Days in a Mad-House</a>. As she wrote, &quot;I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.&quot;  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138853/What-Girls-Are-Good-For" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/112576" target="_self">Celsius1414</a> at 10:21 AM  - <a href="/138853/What-Girls-Are-Good-For" target="_self" class="more">24 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138852/Do-Pirates-Really-Go-Down-with-the-Ship" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Do Pirates Really Go Down with the Ship?</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Exactly ten years after one of the most traumatic events in Tulip Time history, festival-goers (and children) are finally afforded a chance to turn a negative into a <a href="http://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20140503/NEWS/140509633/-1/opinion">positive</a>. Plus, the original <a href="http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=04/05/13/1663287">headlines</a> and the awards-filled <a href="http://www.bilgemunky.com/dutchman/winner_2004.html">aftermath</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/194509" target="_self">saintjoe</a> at 10:19 AM  - <a href="/138852/Do-Pirates-Really-Go-Down-with-the-Ship" target="_self" class="more">5 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138851/Prayers-get-a-new-blessing" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Prayers get a new blessing</a></div>
<div class="copy post">The Supreme Court <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-696_4f57.pdf">ruled</a> (PDF) this morning that the town of Greece, New York did not violate the Constitution <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/nyregion/supreme-court-allows-prayers-at-town-meetings.html">by starting its public meetings with a prayer from a “chaplain of the month.&quot;</a>  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138851/Prayers-get-a-new-blessing" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/55370" target="_self">roomthreeseventeen</a> at 9:55 AM  - <a href="/138851/Prayers-get-a-new-blessing" target="_self" class="more">122 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138850/How-to-communicate-like-Jack-Bauer" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">How to communicate like Jack Bauer.</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tapwedl23w">Jack Bauer has a distinctive approach. He repeats it (SYTL).</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/51012" target="_self">entropone</a> at 9:19 AM  - <a href="/138850/How-to-communicate-like-Jack-Bauer" target="_self" class="more">45 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138849/Stuff-Bach-People-Like" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Stuff Bach People Like</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://allofbach.com/en/">All of Bach:</a> Every week, you will find a new recording here of one Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1080 works, performed by The Netherlands Bach Society and many guest musicians. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/118611" target="_self">Cash4Lead</a> at 8:47 AM  - <a href="/138849/Stuff-Bach-People-Like" target="_self" class="more">11 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138848/Sometimes-you-just-have-to-break-the-rules" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Sometimes you just have to break the rules</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-first-world-anarchists-rebels/">First World Anarchists</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/60900" target="_self">still_wears_a_hat</a> at 8:27 AM  - <a href="/138848/Sometimes-you-just-have-to-break-the-rules" target="_self" class="more">65 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138847/I-Am-Curious-Tweed" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">I Am Curious (Tweed)</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Another day, another Wes Anderson film parody trailer -- this one's for a tasteful, adults-only offering called <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeopJiWnkFI&list=PL3qi8J5cf3Zi_JsngeWvdX1ll6zfPFGlq">The Grand Sausage Pizza</a></em>.  (The NSFW tag is for dialogue and premise, rather than nudity.) <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/120964" target="_self">Iris Gambol</a> at 8:07 AM  - <a href="/138847/I-Am-Curious-Tweed" target="_self" class="more">13 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138845/Too-toxic-for-60-Minutes" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Too toxic for "60 Minutes"?</a></div>
<div class="copy post">A decade after &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy">Rathergate</a>,&quot; 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was badly duped by a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/06/the-benghazi-hoax-chapter-16-60-minutes/197183">security contractor who claimed to have been an eyewitness to and to have fought in the Benghazi battle</a> that eventually killed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Christopher_Stevens">Ambassador Chris Stevens</a> and was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-asks-lara-logan-to-take-leave-after-flawed-benghazi-report/">subsequently asked to take a leave of absence by CBS.</a> CBS itself was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-issues-apology-about-benghazi-report/">forced to apologize.</a> Now, NY Magazine asks &quot;<a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/lara-logan-cbs-news-2014-5/">Can 60 Minutes Afford to Take Lara Logan Back?</a>&quot; <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/28493" target="_self">nevercalm</a> at 6:41 AM  - <a href="/138845/Too-toxic-for-60-Minutes" target="_self" class="more">41 comments</a> </span></div>
<br> <h2>May 4</h2>
<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138844/McCarthyism-is-alive-and-well-and-its-in-the-Immigration-department" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">McCarthyism is alive and well - and it's in the Immigration department.</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/secret-blacklist-of-immigration-lawyers-20140503-37oyw.html">The Department of Immigration and Border Patrol of Australia's secret blacklist of immigration lawyers and agents has been discovered.</a> DIBP claims that the list is used for &quot;risk assessment&quot; for partner visas and has &quot;no impact&quot; on assessing cases. The Migration Alliance, the lobby group of Australian migration agents that <a href="http://migrationalliance.com.au/immigration-daily-news/entry/2014-03-dibp-list-a-and-list-b-of-migration-agents.html">broke the news</a> of the list, <a href="http://migrationalliance.com.au/immigration-daily-news/entry/2014-05-secret-blacklist-of-a-and-b-lawyers-and-agents.html">is not convinced.</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/26466" target="_self">divabat</a> at 10:24 PM  - <a href="/138844/McCarthyism-is-alive-and-well-and-its-in-the-Immigration-department" target="_self" class="more">38 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138843/The-Ballad-of-Lost-KMEL" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The Ballad of Lost KMEL</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlqe1DXnJKQ">Flying Robot Rockstars</a> (SLYT) <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/40518" target="_self">Joe in Australia</a> at 9:22 PM  - <a href="/138843/The-Ballad-of-Lost-KMEL" target="_self" class="more">9 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138842/Jailed-Al-Jazeera-Journalist-Is-Actually-Kind-of-a-Dick" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Jailed Al Jazeera Journalist Is Actually Kind of a Dick</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="https://news.vice.com/article/jailed-al-jazeera-journalist-is-actually-kind-of-a-dick">Jailed Al Jazeera Journalist Is Actually Kind of a Dick</a> by Jason Mojica (Vice News)  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138842/Jailed-Al-Jazeera-Journalist-Is-Actually-Kind-of-a-Dick" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/148857" target="_self">Golden Eternity</a> at 8:49 PM  - <a href="/138842/Jailed-Al-Jazeera-Journalist-Is-Actually-Kind-of-a-Dick" target="_self" class="more">25 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138840/How-to-Win-at-Rock-Paper-Scissors-with-Conditional-Response" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors, with Conditional Response</a></div>
<div class="copy post">For one reason or another, no one has done a thorough evaluation of rock-paper-scissors. That is, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5199">until recently</a>: Zhijian Wang and a group at Zhejiang University in China carried out a study with 360 students recruited from the University. The students were split into 60 groups of six players, and each group played 300 rounds of Rock-Paper-Scissors, with an additional financial incentive to the winners of each group. <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/527026/how-to-win-at-rock-paper-scissors/">Winners stuck with with their selected action, while losers cycled through actions (rock, paper, scissors)</a>. No word on how well this works with <a href="http://www.umop.com/rps.htm">expanded versions of the game</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/78694/Best-two-out-of-three-Thousand">previously</a>). <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/81610" target="_self">filthy light thief</a> at 6:42 PM  - <a href="/138840/How-to-Win-at-Rock-Paper-Scissors-with-Conditional-Response" target="_self" class="more">24 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138838/playful-technologies-can-help-students-understand-how-history-is-created" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">playful technologies can help students understand how history is created</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12544152.0001.001/1:3/--pastplay-teaching-and-learning-history-with-technology?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1">Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology.</a> The fourth book from the <a href="http://www.digitalculture.org/">digitalculturebooks</a> imprint of the University of Michigan Press, <em>Pastplay</em> includes a wide range of essays, all <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=dh;c=dh;idno=12544152.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture">available online</a> for free. T. Mills Kelly reflects on his historical methods course which resulted in a historical hoax, “the last American pirate,” declared one of the 10 biggest hoaxes in Wikipedia’s first ten years. Matthew Kirschenbaum discusses if board games work better than computer games for teaching history. The book's chapters cover successful combinations of play, technology, and history. Yet, many are wary, as a <em>&quot;playful approach to teaching and learning with technology can seem like the worst of all possible worlds: the coupling of strategies developed for entertainment with tools created for commerce.&quot;</em>  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138838/playful-technologies-can-help-students-understand-how-history-is-created" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/170191" target="_self">spamandkimchi</a> at 5:12 PM  - <a href="/138838/playful-technologies-can-help-students-understand-how-history-is-created" target="_self" class="more">13 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138837/We-come-down-from-Cabbagetown" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">We come down from Cabbagetown</a></div>
<div class="copy post">90's Southern Gothic rockers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_rock*a*teens">The Rock*a*Teens</a> have reunited and are going on <a href="http://www.mergerecords.com/tours?artists[]=1607">tour</a>. Their <a href="http://www.mergerecords.com/the-rockateens">unique mixture of dark, swampy rock influences</a> have been praised by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp7kfoLkFFg">Dan</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPNjWaSEdc">Bejar</a> as &quot;the most underrated American rock ’n roll band of the ’90s,&quot; and Will Sheff of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0iSoyw_btI">Okkervil</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqfPkz2kYk">River</a> as, &quot;<a href="http://www.willsheff.com/first-song-of-the-month-the-rockateens-i-could-have-just-died/">masterpieces buried in muck</a>.&quot; The band features Chris Lopez, who you may know from aughties band <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CkWwpISHsM">Tenement Halls</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zCFPqGfNic">Kelly</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQE7VIyhhz8">Hogan</a>, who's worked with Neko Case. Playlist after the jump.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138837/We-come-down-from-Cabbagetown" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/185471" target="_self">gorbweaver</a> at 4:41 PM  - <a href="/138837/We-come-down-from-Cabbagetown" target="_self" class="more">16 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138836/You-may-refer-to-him-as-Archangel" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">You may refer to him as 'Archangel'</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/portland-or/2014/shorts/vomica">VOMICA</a> is a short horror film about a British commando raid that finds an ancient evil in the crypts and tunnels of occupied France. It recently won Best Short Film prize at the 2014 <a href="http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/portland-or/2014/shorts">H P Lovecraft film festival</a>, and is available to watch on Vimeo—for today only—if you go <a href="https://vimeo.com/93806374">here</a> and use the password 'mayday'. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/173545" target="_self">EXISTENZ IS PAUSED</a> at 4:26 PM  - <a href="/138836/You-may-refer-to-him-as-Archangel" target="_self" class="more">27 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138835/Japan-in-7-minutes" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Japan ... in 7 minutes</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Have you ever wanted to visit Japan?   Enjoy this <a href="http://vimeo.com/87008050">tranquil video journey</a>.   ありがとう!  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138835/Japan-in-7-minutes" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/147848" target="_self">taro sato</a> at 3:21 PM  - <a href="/138835/Japan-in-7-minutes" target="_self" class="more">10 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138834/Bonding-James-Bonding" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Bonding. James Bonding.</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Bonding over Bond: <a href="http://www.gosuperego.com/">Superego</a>’s Matt Gourley and Matt Mira of <i><a href="http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/nerdist/">The Nerdist Podcast</a></i> love James Bond so much they decided to make a podcast about it. Each episode they invite a guest to take a serious — and seriously funny! — deep dive into “the greatest film franchise known to man.” Oh, and it's called <i><a href="http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/james-bonding/">James Bonding</a>!</i> (Of course there are Paul F. Tompkins epsiodes, why do you ask?)  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138834/Bonding-James-Bonding" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/78625" target="_self">Room 641-A</a> at 2:34 PM  - <a href="/138834/Bonding-James-Bonding" target="_self" class="more">12 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138832/Forty-three-Werner-Herzog-films-that-can-be-streamed" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Forty-three Werner Herzog films that can be streamed</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Inside, please find a list of forty-three movies, TV episodes, and short subjects by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog">Werner Herzog</a>, all of which can be streamed, along with some short descriptions of their content. One or two of the films are in German without subtitles; this is noted in the description.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138832/Forty-three-Werner-Herzog-films-that-can-be-streamed" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/170113" target="_self">Going To Maine</a> at 10:40 AM  - <a href="/138832/Forty-three-Werner-Herzog-films-that-can-be-streamed" target="_self" class="more">61 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138831/All-Heart-No-Libido" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">All Heart, No Libido</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Anne Helen Petersen of &quot; Scandals Of Classic Hollywood&quot; fame talks <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/zac-efron">about Zac Efron, the impossible demands of movie masculinity, and the history of the Teen Idol Industry on BuzzReads</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/80649" target="_self">The Whelk</a> at 10:17 AM  - <a href="/138831/All-Heart-No-Libido" target="_self" class="more">24 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138830/Does-Winnie-the-Pooh-have-a-B12-deficiency" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">"Does Winnie the Pooh have a B12 deficiency?"</a></div>
<div class="copy post">The <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/issue/current/showToc">Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Projects</a> has been tackling this and other vital subjects from the world of popular culture. As well as the <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/44/29">Winnie the Pooh</a> question, they consider whether <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/40/30">Miley Cyrus</a> really can come on like a wrecking ball, where a <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/47/35">tiny frog</a> gets the extra mass to turn into a human prince, <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/43/36">Sherlock</a>'s ability to see dog hairs at a great distance, how many lies <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/63/40">Pinocchio</a> could tell before the weight of his enlarged nose caused his neck to snap and the feasibility of <a href="http://www.physics.le.ac.uk/jist/index.php/JIST/article/view/66/43">Gus Fring</a>'s last walk. Word of warning: they're all PDFs.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138830/Does-Winnie-the-Pooh-have-a-B12-deficiency" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/96762" target="_self">Paul Slade</a> at 10:12 AM  - <a href="/138830/Does-Winnie-the-Pooh-have-a-B12-deficiency" target="_self" class="more">9 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138829/Een-monsterrit-van-ruim-tweehonderd-kilometer" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">"Een monsterrit van ruim tweehonderd kilometer"</a></div>
<div class="copy post">For the <a href="http://www.explore-the-north.nl/">Explore the North</a> (Dutch) festival held in Ljouwert, Frysl&#0226;n last year, British electronica group / video slingers Public Service Broadcasting was requested to make two songs/videos over the 1963 Elfstedentocht, perhaps the toughest edition of that tour ever held. Taking footage and voice overs from the Fries Film Archief, the results are <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63qrV4iKTc">Elfstedentocht part 1</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPBTwwnpdc">Elfstedentocht part 2</a> (English subtitles in the commentary section). (further reading: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/112465/brrrrrrr#4172432">goodnewsfortheinsane explains the Elfstedentocht</a>; <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/118019/teach-the-lessons-of-the-past-through-the-music-of-the-future">Public Service broadcasting</a> previously.) <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/141010" target="_self">MartinWisse</a> at 10:04 AM  - <a href="/138829/Een-monsterrit-van-ruim-tweehonderd-kilometer" target="_self" class="more">4 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138828/the-contest-could-turn-ugly-expensive-and-politically-costly" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">the contest could turn ugly, expensive, and politically costly</a></div>
<div class="copy post">&quot;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-gop-has-finally-found-a-way-to-defeat-the-tea-party-20140501">The GOP Has Finally Found a Way to Defeat the Tea Party</a>&quot;
<br>Electability was trumping ideological purity—just as the establishment had planned. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/52631" target="_self">davidstandaford</a> at 9:18 AM  - <a href="/138828/the-contest-could-turn-ugly-expensive-and-politically-costly" target="_self" class="more">84 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138827/Ever-Wondered-How-Cadburys-makes-thier-Creme-Eggs-Wiredcouk-shows-us" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Ever Wondered How Cadbury's makes thier Creme Eggs? Wired.co.uk shows us</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/05/start/factory-farmed-easter-treats/viewgallery/334210">In a small gallery of six images wired.co.uk shows how the branded chocolate eggs are created.</a> The pictures don't seem to show you  *precisely* how they make get the fondant middle into the 'egg' but the six pictures do illustrate some of the chocolatey magic.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138827/Ever-Wondered-How-Cadburys-makes-thier-Creme-Eggs-Wiredcouk-shows-us" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/109322" target="_self">Faintdreams</a> at 8:11 AM  - <a href="/138827/Ever-Wondered-How-Cadburys-makes-thier-Creme-Eggs-Wiredcouk-shows-us" target="_self" class="more">41 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138826/Ewok-Anthropology" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Ewok Anthropology</a></div>
<div class="copy post">In honor of May the Fourth, I present to you more information about Ewoks than you ever cared to know: The Return of the Subaltern (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqzaVq5uY68">Part One</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfdXId8NVA">Part Two</a>) <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/178838" target="_self">AlonzoMosleyFBI</a> at 8:04 AM  - <a href="/138826/Ewok-Anthropology" target="_self" class="more">8 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138825/Up-next-our-new-segment-Whats-inside-that-box" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Up next, our new segment: "What's inside that box?"</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/">Breaking Cat News</a> is a webcomic by <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/about-breaking-cat-news-2/">Georgia Dunn</a> about <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/about-breaking-cat-news/">three feline TV journalists</a> who report on such breaking news as <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-people-are-building-box-forts/">the people are building box forts</a>, <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-vacuum-is-out/">the vacuum is out</a>, <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-woman-is-trying-to-make-the-bed/">the woman is trying to make the bed</a> and <a href="http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/that-cat-is-in-the-back-yard-again/">the cat is in the backyard again</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/16000" target="_self">Kattullus</a> at 6:20 AM  - <a href="/138825/Up-next-our-new-segment-Whats-inside-that-box" target="_self" class="more">53 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138824/The-Fascinating-Life-of-a-Music-Copyist" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The Fascinating Life of a Music Copyist</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://missmusicnerd.com/the-fascinating-life-of-a-music-copyist/">It’s called “part extraction,” and you don’t even need a local anesthetic to perform it.</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/122588" target="_self">fix</a> at 5:55 AM  - <a href="/138824/The-Fascinating-Life-of-a-Music-Copyist" target="_self" class="more">4 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138823/So-you-want-to-break-the-strike" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">So, you want to break the strike?</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://lornatooley.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/so-you-want-to-break-the-strike/">Frank and inspiring words from a twenty-five year old RMT activist, Lorna Tooley.</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/171254" target="_self">Mistress</a> at 3:42 AM  - <a href="/138823/So-you-want-to-break-the-strike" target="_self" class="more">18 comments</a> </span></div>
<br> <h2>May 3</h2>
<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138822/How-Steve-Wozniak-Wrote-BASIC-for-the-Original-Apple-From-Scratch" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch</a></div>
<div class="copy post">&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC">Integer BASIC</a>, written by Steve Wozniak, was the BASIC interpreter of the Apple I and original Apple II computers. Originally available on cassette, then included in ROM on the original Apple II computer at release in 1977, it was the first version of BASIC used by many early home computer owners. Thousands of programs were written in Integer BASIC.&quot; Metafilter's own <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/43565">Steve Wozniak</a> discusses <a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636">how he wrote BASIC for the original apple</a> from scratch. <small>(<a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/47835/Woz-More-like-Was-am-I-rite#728258">Previously</a>.) </small> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/64693" target="_self">SpacemanStix</a> at 11:41 PM  - <a href="/138822/How-Steve-Wozniak-Wrote-BASIC-for-the-Original-Apple-From-Scratch" target="_self" class="more">51 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138821/Close-shave" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Close shave</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites/bus-sized-asteroid-buzzes-earth-closer-than-moon-140503.htm">Saturday's close shave by asteroid 2014 HL129 came just days after its discovery on Wednesday, April 28</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/34149" target="_self">butterstick</a> at 9:22 PM  - <a href="/138821/Close-shave" target="_self" class="more">37 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138820/Most-Problems-Never-Have-To-Be-Solved" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Most Problems Never Have To Be Solved</a></div>
<div class="copy post">Your mind tells you there is a problem whenever it detects a somewhat possible unpleasant future experience, which it can do all day, and it happily will if you don't call its bluff. Of course there's an infinite supply of potential disasters. <a href="http://www.raptitude.com/2014/04/most-problems-never-have-to-be-solved/">These are just thoughts, but they seem like realities</a>, and any one of them can create an emotional pitfall now no matter what actually happens later. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/80984" target="_self">paleyellowwithorange</a> at 9:06 PM  - <a href="/138820/Most-Problems-Never-Have-To-Be-Solved" target="_self" class="more">25 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138818/The-Largest-Vocabulary-in-Hip-Hop" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><blockquote>Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever (average people have a vocab of 5,000 words). I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. <a href="http://mdaniels.com/vocab/analysis.html">That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.</a></blockquote> 
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/63742" target="_self">cthuljew</a> at 6:29 PM  - <a href="/138818/The-Largest-Vocabulary-in-Hip-Hop" target="_self" class="more">79 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138817/I-sing-of-legs-and-a-tail" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">I sing of legs and a tail</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://excrementalvirtue.com/2014/04/30/puppy-aeneid/">puppy aeneid</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/29519" target="_self">grobstein</a> at 4:34 PM  - <a href="/138817/I-sing-of-legs-and-a-tail" target="_self" class="more">8 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138816/On-Being-Ones-Own-Fairy-Godmother" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">On Being One's Own Fairy Godmother</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/read-amy-schumers-ms-gala-speech.html">Amy Schumer's tale of courage, sex and self-worth as told at the Ms. Foundation Gala.</a> &quot;I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story — I will. I will speak and share and fuck and love and I will never apologize to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it.&quot; <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/190912" target="_self">rogerrogerwhatsyourrvectorvicto</a> at 3:59 PM  - <a href="/138816/On-Being-Ones-Own-Fairy-Godmother" target="_self" class="more">54 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138815/Britpop-A-British-Disaster" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Britpop: A British Disaster</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/15092-blur-parklife-anniversary-review/">This essay</a> by music journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Parkes">Taylor Parkes</a> does an extraordinarily good job of explaining why <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britpop">Britpop</a> was so deeply and unremittingly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIEsmGzo2UE" title="If there's one thing that leaps out from Parklife, the album, it's this penchant for smirking caricatures of working class culture, which probably seemed like a laugh at the time, but does expose the album's total lack of anything resembling a heart">horrible</a>.  <span class="smallcopy">[<a href="/138815/Britpop-A-British-Disaster" target="_self">more inside</a>]</span><br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/47942" target="_self">motty</a> at 3:08 PM  - <a href="/138815/Britpop-A-British-Disaster" target="_self" class="more">81 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138814/The-poet-who-vanished" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">The poet who vanished</a></div>
<div class="copy post">The poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Tonks">Rosemary Tonks</a> turned her back on the literary world in the mid-1970s, leaving behind her a handful of <a href="http://thedabbler.co.uk/2013/04/disappearing-acts-2-rosemary-tonks/">strange and brilliant poems</a> and a small band of <a href="http://www.culturecritic.co.uk/blog/lost-classics-8-rosemary-tonks-notes-on-cafes-and-bedroomsiliad-of-broken-sentences/">devoted admirers</a> who longed to know what had happened to her.  For forty years she disappeared completely, 'evaporated into air like the Cheshire Cat', as Brian Patten remarked in a 2009 BBC documentary, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j5ttf">The Poet Who Vanished</a>.  Now, with news of her death at the age of 85, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/rosemary-tonks">the story of her life is starting to emerge</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/17461" target="_self">verstegan</a> at 2:39 PM  - <a href="/138814/The-poet-who-vanished" target="_self" class="more">14 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138813/Planetes-Space-is-too-big-to-face-all-alone" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Planetes: Space is too big to face all alone</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><em>Abandoned artificial satellites. Tanks jettisoned from shuttles. Refuse generated during space station construction. This junk, space debris, is traveling around the Earth at speeds approaching 8 km/s. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxuACuL5zI" title="full opening with Spanish subtitles; the English subtitles are included in the post as the first five italicized sentences.">This is a story of 2075, a time in which this space garbage has become a serious problem.</a></em> This is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes"><em>Planetes</em></a>, a near-future hard sci-fi story that focuses on a small group of debris collectors who are part of a larger company. Both <a href="http://booksandbeautifulworld.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/manga-mondayreviewplanetes/">the original manga</a> and <a href="http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=713">the anime adaptation</a> set small personal stories and dramas in the realistic context of near-future space exploration, complete with <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/humanresearch/elements/research_info_element-srpe.html#.U2VZMIFdV4A">radiation sickness</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/33082-would-humans-born-on-mars-grow-taller-than-earthlings-.html">impacts of growing up on the moon</a>, and of course, the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html">dangers of space debris</a>. The reality of the show is emphasized by a recent JAXA presentation was titled <a href="http://airex.tksc.jaxa.jp/pl/dr/AA0064542003/en"><em>PLANETES could be a true story?: Instability of the current debris population in LEO</em></a>, and the English DVDs include interviews with NASA staff who work on <a href="http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/">assessing orbital debris</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/81610" target="_self">filthy light thief</a> at 2:06 PM  - <a href="/138813/Planetes-Space-is-too-big-to-face-all-alone" target="_self" class="more">41 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138812/Spy-satellite-images-reveal-Middle-Eastern-archaelogical-sites" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Spy satellite images reveal Middle Eastern archaelogical sites</a></div>
<div class="copy post">The <a href="http://corona.cast.uark.edu/index.html">Corona Atlas of the Middle East</a> uses<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140425-corona-spy-satellite-archaeology-science/"> spy satellite imagery to reveal as many as 10,000 previously unknown archaeological sites</a>. <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/137499" target="_self">MoonOrb</a> at 1:52 PM  - <a href="/138812/Spy-satellite-images-reveal-Middle-Eastern-archaelogical-sites" target="_self" class="more">8 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138811/Dinner-Porn" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Dinner Porn...</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.soshiok.com/content/hungry-dinner-porn#sthash.z5i1jZlt.gbpl">...but not quite what you think.</a> <small>SFW</small> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/190387" target="_self">feckless fecal fear mongering</a> at 1:25 PM  - <a href="/138811/Dinner-Porn" target="_self" class="more">12 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138810/Hold-me-tight" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">Hold me tight</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/2/5674448/nagoro-japanese-doll-village-photos-video">Valley of Dolls</a> <blockquote>Eleven years ago, Ayano Tsukimi returned to her home in Nagoro. Confronted with constant departures, she has populated the village with dolls, each representing a former villager. Around 350 of the giant dolls now reside in and around Nagoro, replacing those that died or abandoned the village years ago.
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In a <a href="http://vimeo.com/92453765">recent documentary</a> titled The Valley Of Dolls, Fritz Schumann explores Tsukimi's world, highlighting the time and artistry that goes into making the figures, and explaining her motivations. In it we're shown around a local school, once filled with children and teachers, that now houses dozens of dolls, sitting statically, waiting for class to begin.</blockquote> 
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/23476" target="_self">infini</a> at 11:16 AM  - <a href="/138810/Hold-me-tight" target="_self" class="more">13 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138809/When-a-man-loves-a-woman-very-muchhe-goes-blind-and-dies" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">When a man loves a woman very much...he goes blind and dies</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-this-marsupial-has-marathon-sex-until-it-goes-blind-and-drops-dead/">The short life of the male marsupial known as antechinus, which always ends due to his body crashing after a multi week testosterone fueled breeding season.</a> <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/17675" target="_self">Brandon Blatcher</a> at 9:37 AM  - <a href="/138809/When-a-man-loves-a-woman-very-muchhe-goes-blind-and-dies" target="_self" class="more">31 comments</a> </span></div>
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<div class="posttitle front"><a href="/138808/What-Michael-did" target="_self" style="text-decoration:none;">What Michael did</a></div>
<div class="copy post"><blockquote>“He did what he did out of fear,” Michael’s father says now. “He was mentally ill. Not criminally responsible means you’re not morally responsible.”<br>
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“It wasn’t his fault,” says Rebecca, who rested her hand on her brother’s shoulder as they walked out of court that day.</blockquote>
How does a family cope when <a href="http://projects.thestar.com/what-michael-stewart-did/">one of them kills his mother in the midst of a psychotic episode</a>? <br>
<span class="smallcopy">posted by <a href="/user/141010" target="_self">MartinWisse</a> at 9:21 AM  - <a href="/138808/What-Michael-did" target="_self" class="more">23 comments</a> </span></div>
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